In search of the true Siamese Algae Eater – get ready for the confusion!

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Well Jess, at least you were able to help us all with narrowing down the ID process to something useful.

Thank you for that.

Now it is back to the search for the correct algea eater to cure the remaining problem. And in the meantime I can enjoy the finned friends I thought were correct. At least they have interesting behaviour, and my chain loaches like schooling with them.

If they both definately don't have barbels or blotch then they can only be the C. atrilimes - I thought from the pictures you had that one had a slighly more lemon tinge to it on the upperside (maybe it was the lighting)

You can see the barbels on this one and the coloring is more a yellow brown hue rather than just yellow - hard to see if the stripe is completely horizontal in this piccie but I'm pretty sure it is a C. Langei - the algae eating one